Union Pacific Railroad Company Film [4K]

[@pauls.3400]

My Dad, a lifetime conductor with Western Pacific, used to take me and my brother on trips through the Feather River Canyon🛤🚂

[@rapman5363]

marck dalecki back in the days when you could take your son to work. Try doing that nowadays and your job is at risk due to some rat fink coworker who wants a promotion.

[@pauls.3400]

@@rapman5363 😅🐀 two legged rats are the worst kind

[@pauls.3400]

@Amed Tajan My grandpa was an engineer and retired in 1957 after nearly 40 yrs service. His engine is in the railroad museum in Portola California...

[@golde289]

@@pauls.3400 my dad died on up lines doing his job

[@jasonpeachrick2037]

@@pauls.3400 Which locomotive?

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

At 18:35,, reminds me of an old johnny carson joke he told on his show. back in the 1970s the US had a proposal to put portable MX missiles throughout the US.(so as to be hidden in a dispersal) carson suggested they be put on Amtrak trains,,,, "that way no one will ever know where they are".

[@hotdogstockimage]

Funny thing is, the russians, or soviets back then, had the same idea, but they were ballistic missiles. And were phased out from the Russian military in 2005

[@JohnEDoey]

LOL... yeah, I saw that episode! Johnny Carson is still my late night host every night.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

summer,1978 was at Paducah and there were a bunch of UP SD24A&B units. They looked incredibly good. They would be rebuilt for the ICG, and they ran the crap out of them for many years.

[@gary24fan]

Any model railroaders modeling this era could certainly pick up some useful tips here to adapt to their layouts.

[@stevehomeier8368]

Love that 8 byte computer!!!

[@Individualman929]

EIGHT WHOLE BYTES.

[@TheBeeMan1994]

I work for the Idaho Northern, which owns the Idaho Northern Branch In Cascade. Crazy to think 50 years ago hundreds of thousands of lbs of lumber moved on those tracks daily, and now, it hasn’t seen a single train in 3 years

[@ALL-bj7mj]

funny you say that....I worked for CCP from 1994 to 1996.....Illinois Railnet from 2001 to 2006...…..a lot of tracks I ran on are now RAILS TO TRAILS....Illinois in the last 5 years had more tracks tore out than any other state...granted a lot of the companies that were along these branches moved out of the state, or were taxed out of business....

[@tommytruth7595]

@@ALL-bj7mj Same story in NY State----business AND the railroads taxed out of existence.

[@jimmartin7881]

@@tommytruth7595 I see CSX run daily up here.

[@planebois]

Northside Chicagoan here. I haven’t worked for any railroads bc I’m a teen but the gentrification up here in the past half century has been immense.

[@bolte45]

And 4014 looking good on display. looks better now.

[@mackpines]

Nice footage (albeit brief) of the Hines lumber mill near Burns. Both the mill and UP’s Oregon Eastern branch are all gone now.

[@angusmarshall2455]

i like the nose to nose lashup

[@JohnR.1968]

BIG BOY 4014,back in the day.Nice.

[@25mfd]

@ 26:57... and here's where PSR(hunter harrison) has moved the needle on railroading, very little switching is being performed now... wall st will reward the railroads if they can show that the cars on their system are MOVING and not standing still in a money draining yard... no more re-blocking cars into different trains... take those cars all the way through as far as you can

[@rayronvr]

seeing 4014 in the video just made me smile.

[@Bryanja81]

Guy sure knows a lot for working in the caboose...

[@ghiggs5096]

15:00 Tri-levels! I remember those and the memories ain't good! Some of those cars we loaded/unloaded were so old I probably worked on some from this video.

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

Ooh, what was the trouble with these cars? I assume having the open sides makes it a target for rocks to be smashed through car windows etc

[@ghiggs5096]

@@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS Frequent vandalism and other assorted damage. They were easy for the hobo's to get into and what a mess they would leave. Old food, trash and sometimes.... poop! Yes poop! Depending on the load you could put 15 to 18 cars on a tri-level and 10 to 12 on a Bi-level. On one occasion we had an entire rail car with damaged vehicles. Someone went to town busting out the all the glass, ripping up the interiors, denting the body panels. 15 new cars totaled! Chrysler didn't care but I'm sure UP did. XD

[@shadowkasai9182]

42:19 Look who it is!! 4014

[@truenorth3077]

Ya, way back in the day!

[@blairterry9435]

Yep before she returned to the High Iron.

[@jdp..1716]

Its really cool how out of all the Big Boys donated they showed that one

[@Worldwar1944]

The big boy

[@ShakespeareCafe]

Cal Trask (James Dean) in East of Eden came up with the idea of a refrigerated box cars using ice to move lettuce from the Salinas Valley to the East Coast

[@jdp..1716]

1:43 And today UP is one of the 7 class 1s left, quite a prophetic statement 🤣

[@markfrench8892]

The only thing going through my mine was while the conductor was talking to the newbie who was watching the train for hot boxes? 😆

[@twizz420]

Uploading this in 4k was kind of a waste, but thanks for uploading it nonetheless.

[@dc9345]

What year is this video

[@Mayito_Tamps]

I Love Semi Trucks And Trains Without Us America Stops

[@ocsrc]

I remember when AMERICA grew and provided all it's own people with all the food we are. Now, you will be lucky to find anything that says made in america

[@beesnakeable]

RIP to these days, as PSR has ruined it.

[@25mfd]

yet the railroads don't like that term... they use terms like "increasing ASSET UTILIZATION"... that's code word for employee layoffs

[@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos]

@Tommy Kaden Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR). More like Precision Scheduled Failroading (PSFR)

[@BLACKTHUMB01]

It was Crews like this who led to the demise of the Caboose.

[@emmettPlaysRoblox]

5:22 😂

[@emmettPlaysRoblox]

Railroads not being around too long lol 😂 we still have railroads

[@mrkirbo5142]

Railroads still have more to offer though....

[@eeeeee7241]

11:15

[@PhilfromCraigslist707]

Totally 4k yep

[@video0s310]

The 8 dislikes are from NS, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, CSX, Burlington Northen, Chessie System and BNSF

[@LJT7907]

This is not 4K. You might have uploaded it as 4K. But the original video quality is not 4K. It looks more like 480p

[@mikeznel6048]

5:23 its a panis!!! I see men of culture were prevalent back then as well!!!

[@deadfreightwest5956]

Meet Uncle Pete!

[@zanemixproductions5542]

This had to be in the late 1940’s to early 50’s as they still used F Units

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

1964.... I saw that date on the Header of the Company Stock Report that the old man was reading. 😉 UP liked their F9s!!! They were also still running 1st Gen Geeps.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

@@CarminesRCTipsandTricks in summer 1978 i was at CRIP yard,chicago(burr oak)and in the roundhouse was a UP painted F7A! I doubt it ever ran again. btw, next to it was a GP7 and an E7A.

[@CarminesRCTipsandTricks]

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 An *E Unit* in 1978??? That's when this then Teenager was Railfanning around Colton Yard! GREAT Times! All the Second Gen units you could want, DDA40Xs, the Espee was still running a few DD35Bs over Cajon Pass... Never saw Covered Wagons though. That must have been sweet!

[@ALL-bj7mj]

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 my father worked on the Illinois division.....he since passed back in 2001....I recall the locomotive your talking about. I do think the one your referring to was a F9AM, it was 1 of many UP sent to the rock to keep things rolling....I do recall my father telling me of some Rio Grande GP7s that the Rock Island got pretty cheap....

[@THATNI99AJOHN]

That jet plane at the beginning has me thinking late 60s early 70s .

[@JAKE3914]

just think of a mega thousand ton train going across the country. . .with NO ONE on the locomotive!!!! (Denver Post..FEB 16th)

[@pauljw7697]

I recall reading an article on autonomous trains in the Jan issue of TrainsMag. PTC is the 1st step in creating autonomous trains. Railroads are considering autonomous operation since trucking companies are already testing tractor-trailers on highways with no drivers. Read the article, it's very awakening! I don't feel comfortable with either. Would you feel comfortable with an 80,000 GVW tractor-trailer going 55mph on a highway along side you? Or a 1-2 mile long consist weighing many thousand's of tons hauling hazardous chemicals or flammables, coming through your area? They say dispatch will have computer control over multiple units, at the same time. That's scary too! Gee, watch my screen while I run to the restroom. And just the delay time in the signals total travel time. From train to satellite, back to operator, back to satellite and on to train. That 1-2 seconds could be a matter of life or death. There is no replacing a human at the controls while seated in the cab of the train or truck. Trucking companies are trying to compete with trains & railroads are trying to compete with trucking companies. Tell the bean counters "NO" and to come up with some other cost effective way of reducing operating costs without reducing safety.

[@mybestieischloer2401]

@@pauljw7697 safety first,stock holders second.

[@littlegp18]

@@pauljw7697 I read that as well. We have markers that go out when a train is too long or the radio doesn't travel as well in crappy weather. Now imagine if a storm interferes with the signal from the satellite to the train and back? Or if there's a knuckle break or a air problem in the middle of a populated area?

[@25mfd]

i'd like to see TODAYS U.P. have enough guts to make a movie like this... it would be so full of PSR BS and baloney, the only ones who would be taking it all in would be the shareholders and hedgefund investors...lol

[@Bamaji2]

25mfd but that’s exactly what this is.

[@jimmartin7881]

Yeah because shareholders don't matter, lol. Do you invest in companies to lose money because you have an emotional connection to them?

[@joshuabarnett6916]

A lot

[@relevanteaglealarms109]

Union Pacific.

[@تيي-و9د]

🌐🌐

[@vancepomerening4794]

Great footage, but very tedious narration.

[@mitchkoch7230]

LMAO HOWS THAT FUTURE NOW THAT THEY GOT RID OF YOUR JOB

[@norcanexs.g.llc.4625]

Wow, with so much hot air no wonder we have global warming!

[@mybestieischloer2401]

global warming makes no sense any way.

[@charlessmileyvideos]

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